The Sun. — London, England, 1808-08-29 00:00:00

Sif.COND 1:‘.,1/1 I'IJN. SUN-OFFICE, HALF PAST TWO O'CLOCK, P.M. WE stop the Press to state, that Government have received accounts, this morning, from Corunna, which mention that the French troops which were in Segovia and Valladolid have evacuated those Places, and fallen back upon Burgos, where they are encle.ivouring to concentrate their Forces. There is no further news from Bilcay. We have received Spanish Pilpers to the igth inst. fro m which we have.made the following extra6.ls CADIZ, Jui.-r 22.—Ti)e Spaniards who were pri- soners i n England, have arrived to fight against the enemies of the peace of the world. Letters from London state, that the most cordial reception was given in that Capital to the Deputies from Asturias, Galicia, and Leon. The first night they went to the Opera the applause of the audience, on their entrance, tasted a considerable time. VALENCIA, JULY 22.—Since the 17th inst. 1200 tnen have landed at St. Carlos, for Saragossa. A Vessel has also arrived from Majorca and Port Ma- lion, with official Dispatches from our Squadron at that Port, for the Supreme Junta at Seville. She brings intelligence that 5,800 men, all troops of the line, had embarked, and were standing in for Tar- ragona. This intelligence gives us room to hope that the unfortunate City of Barcelona will soon be liberated. The Navigation of our Coasts is perfedly free. Vessels have arrived from Cadiz. VIANA, PORTUGAL, AU(;. 12.—0 n the 6th of this month 6000 English Troops landed here, in addition to the tom() that had previously disembarked.— It is supposed they will reach Lisbon about the 14th or 1 sth. MADRTDI AUG. io.—The armies of Valencia and Arragon entered this city yesterday. They came With the intention of driving out the French, and Lave now followed then, towards the frontiers.— All the troops that were in the garrison have accom- panied them, so that the police of the city, is now entirely carried on by the inhabitants, from which duty no out is exempt, not even the Ecclesiastics. An enlistment has been ordered, comprizing all Males between the ages of -18 and so, without any exception. The 24th will be a grand day in this Capital and Its vicinity, for on that day FERDINAND the 7th will be proclaimed here and at Toledo. the following are the positions which the Galli- tian Army now occupies :—The Vanguard and the Head-quarters are at Astorga. The first Division under the command of General CAGIGUL, at Or beg(); the second at Manzanal ; the third at Vi fereas;. and the fourth in Leon. TAE ART,..—NORTTICOTE his added to his high re rliation by an admirable Portrait of the present -' B'shoQ of SALISBURY. It is a very correct likeness, and is throughout painted with great vigour and • spirit. The Episcopal ensignia are well disposed,-, and the attitude is dignified without formality. He has been equally successful in a Portrait of Earl COWPER, in his costume as a Peer. The colouring i 3 peculiarly chaste, and the whole is a masterly composition. Both of these pictures do honour to the modern school. This artist has also made a very promising progress in a Portrait of Sir Cu r ARLEs , IlittsnAwP., in the aa of taking CuttacoA, an achievement that - places his name-high in the rank ; of British Heroes. The gallant Officer is to be re- PieSElltztd as heading his intrepid band of Tars, and the pi;-,ture is likely to be worthy or the glorious ac fiun which it is intended to %cord. The Artist, like his great predecessor, RUBENS, does not think the 'lnferior animals beneath his pencil, and he has made two excellent Fietiires of Dogs, one belonging to Lady Dvsmr, and the other to Str PAILLte 1 , :ox. We ought so:oe time - ago to have mentioned an admirable picture by another Artist, who unites various provinces, and is very successful in all. We mean WARD, who lately paititeda velure for Lord GRENVILLE, of a favourite Greyhound, which the . Artist introduced five times on the same canvass, and varied the attitudes with so much judgment and taste, as to form a very pleasing granny. Nothing could be more spirited of the kind, and the picture altogether does great credit to the ingenious Artist. Coo has made a second visit to Edinburgh this 3 f'ason, where he pert - firmed Shylock and Sir sirchy on Wednesday last. 'His engagement was to con clude this evening, though it is probable that his suc -cess will tempt theMana,ger to renew it for a tew nthts. Mr. and Mrs. H. SIDDONS . are performing at the same place. The Richmond Manager has wisely strengthened his theatrical COrpil by the addition of Mrs. Jorinsikl, whom he has engaged for eight nights, and' theiat traeLtion of whose talents will doubtless secure him en ample PUBLIC EXPEI Li/ UllE. Liz Third Report of the Committee on the Pub lic Expenditure, &c. of the United Kingdnut, has Just been printed. It is a bulky volume, coniisting of 31,1 folio pages. that reNw.iion.ir e, in 1,1!no been applied to pen•ions on the Civil List : and it is easy to see to what an extent such a rraaice might be carried, and how entirely it might xi.au•-1 the means of bestowing the Royal Bounty, even upon the most deserving objeCii." COMPENSATIONS. Upon the suhjeel. of Compensations, the Report makes the following observations : " It must not he overlooked, that in tact:; of dis tinguished merit Parliament has ever been ready to exempt the Civil List from any additional burden; and as inses.nces of this honourable description have, fortunately for the Country, never occurred more frequently than within these latter years, so the li berality of the Nation has been called forth to a larger extent than in any former period. " A further consideration is, that although most of the grants are nominally during pleasure, they are generally regarded as equivalent to an interest for life ; and that examples rarely occur, where a change in the circumstances of the grantees has occasioned those who have the legitimate controul to abolish, or induced - those by whom they are held, voluntarily to surrender them. The footsteps towards royal boun ty are visible in all dire lions, but few traces of re- CORK, At G. 2 . 2.--The 9th Garrison Battalion, turn are discoverable. i which lately went from this country to s F •e h , d e eae, , " Under all these circumstances, your Committee i with an intention of being disbanded, their time do not hesitate in submitting to the House, that all : having terminated, have entered for general service, anet allowances in the nature of pensions , which are not ! , are appointed a Legion to serve in Spain, under striCtly superannuation, should be classed under their 1. the command of Sir SAMUEL ACI-INIUTY, wh has proper head, and paid at the Exchequer ; preserving been permitted to receive an untimitted number of at the same time entries of such pensions, together i i volunteers from the Irish Militia. with the circumstances under which they have been granted, on the establishment of the offices in which On the celebration of his Royal Highness the the services have been performed. It may be also Duke of CLARENCF.'S Birth-day, - last week, at expedient to limit the • sums in which allowances Bushy, the - grounds were thrown open to the popu may be applied to cases of superannuation, so as not - lace, for the first time since the very expensive and to exceed a certain proportion of the former salary." tasteful improvements whirh they have lately re ceived. Among the new ornaments which heighten SIN ECURES AND OFFICES EXECUTED wHott..Y OR the beauty and effsect of the ecene is an o&agon tern- CHIEFLY BY DEPUTY. pie ereCied by his Royal Highness to the memory of " The view which your Committee take of this :Lord NELSON, adorned with a bust of that ever to subject corresponds in principle, and differs.oely in be .. lamented Hero, standing on a piece of the iden degree from that of the former Committee ; but it is e tical mast of the Vi wry, before which he fell in their anxious wish to guard against suffering the the great and glorious battle of Trafalgar ;and bear subjett to escape notice, • without being titled upon, . ing the memorable signal which he threw out on the while the information is fully brought under ob- morning of that celebrated day— servation. If the opinion should prevail, that a le gislatiVe measure ought to be no longer deferred with -" England expeas every man to do his duty." regard to offices of this description, your Committee Tlt whole was designed by his Royal Highness, submit that, leaving untouched all places of honour • and does credit to his taste. It was a pleasing and and distindtion connected with the personal service of affeeting, speaaCie to behold the awe and reverence His Majesty and his Royal Family, it may be exile- with which the people approached this fane, and client considerably to reduce the emoluments of j viewed She bust of the immortal Hero. They could some, and to abolish others. not appear impressed with stronger emotions on en "At the same time, regarding it as a fundamental tering the inmost recesses of tile most solemn and part of the Constitution of this Country, and of the sacred of the temples of antiquity dedicated to reii- reason of state in every country, that there must .be gion. Every hat, as the populace approsehed, was means of rewarding public service, and that those off as it were by one impulse, and the tears glisten s will be incomplete, :led indeed wholly in- ed in the eye,.or • trickled down the cheek, of many "sittlicient for that purpose, if there should be no a bold and manly rustic, while contemplating ttlis s ..: further reward for that service than the daily wages tribute to theertemory of the bravest, the most fur it receives during the pleasure of the Crown, your tunate, and the most popular Commander that Committee are of opinion, that such sinecures as adorns the annals of our naval history. the House in its wisdom may think fit to retain, On Teesday, SEID ACUMET EFFnNIII, Turkish should al ways in future be ;Tithed to recompence •t Envoy. Extraordinary, who lately arrived in this the faithful discharge of the duties of efficient otiice ; country, in tile Bitter, with renewed pacific over or in the event of the House preferring to abolish tares, from Constantinople, arrived at Portsmooth, generally ail such offices, they conceive that it will from London, on his return home, iii company with become proper to substitute some other mode, by A. Sr. J. BAItEu, Esq. Private Secretary to R. which the Crown may he enabled to reward public ADAIR, Esq. charged with important dispatches.-- servants in a moiler proportioned to the nature and 'They embarked on board the Success o sT Frigate, C t e • length of the duties performed." ATSCOVGII, which sailed the next morning for REVERSIoNS. Malta. It may be recollected that the Bittern tell " The chief objeetions to this method of convey- in with the Hyperion, in the Bay, which had the late ing contingent interests are, that in the first instance Char ge D'Affaires (SEDKI EFFENDI) from Constan of every such grant, a diminution must take p l ace in tinople on board ; and that in consequence of the the permanent prerogative, equal to the difference in communications made. to him by SEID ACHMET value between expectancy arid possession : that the EFFENDI, he returned to London, where he is now appointment of fit and sufficient persons to hold re-established ,in his diplomatic charetier.—Mr. offices is less likely to be regarded when it is to take i ADAIR is negotiating with the Ottoman Court for effect at a distant and uncertain period, than when a the perfect re-establishment of amity between the certain notoriety attaches open the manner in which two countries. Lord Viscount JOCELYN, with each vacancy is filled ;and it can hardl y be disputed, dispatches for the Junta at Seville, also went in the that incapacity from age, sex, or natural disability, Success, to be landed at Cadiz. may be distegarded, in the former case, which could R 'the principle of Conscription is as rigorously car not be tolerated in the latter. It may be furl her r;ed into effect in every part of Poland as it is in the urged, that anticipations of this sort tend to per- French Empire. Neither the privileges of rank, nor petuate inefficient places, and to render any altera- I the prejudices of religion, are respected. Nettling tions and regulations less effectual, and more distant, i : is allowed to stand in the way of that great ohjehl, which the wisdom of Parliament may think fit to j the augMentation of the army. Persons of the Jew adopt with regard to them. i ish persuasion are enrolled and competed to march, " On the other hand, Reversionary Grants may j and none of the Nobles are exempted in case the be defended as a cheap and econumical mode of con- ballot should. fall on them. A person of this el ites ferring favours, of paying services by expeftation, being lately drawn, offered to provide ten men in rather than by actual office or pension ; and of en- i his place. ' The proposal was rejeCted by the French abling the Crown to draw distinguished talents and Officer superintending the execueion of the ballot. eminent charaaers into the public employ, who, i " The example of one man of your rank (said he) without some prosped of permanent provision for being compelled to march, will produce she greatest their families, might be unwilling to give up their effect—it will at once shew the power and the im time and labour, and above all , their profe s s ional p artialit y of m y Soverei g n." emolumerite, upon the hazard of the short and un- It is stated that a Gentleman of respeEtability in certain duration of two things, so precarious tn their the City has received a letter from the.,Continent, nature, as office and lite.. It must be admitted, chat the prerogative will stating, that a Revolution has been effeeled in Tur be abridged during the; of the power of 'b , rsesereet, which has fhr e :suspension key, making any such grants, so far as relates to the va- bje)6l the intrigues of S the placing of the Grand Duke Coes er re ff on the throne of that Empire. lue of the reversionary right in these particular offices, T" : c‘: and no farther. It is also coutended, that Grants of biUONAPARTE, profiting by the wretchedness to this sort , have n e ther been carried to excess, nor be- which he has reduced the people of Germany, has drawn from the Northern Provinces a cousiderable Caine chargeable with actual abuse. number of seamen. To arrest for the moment the " With the view of fairly stating this part of the case, your Committee progress of famine, the poor mariners of Stettin , proceed to lay before the . Rostock übec HaMburgh, Oldenhurgh, &c. have House the extent mnt d aou of all suwisting rover- : 'I ' , accepted the bribes be offered fist ,their services ; lions, some of which Will be found to come distinct- ; after undergoing a rigid probation at Wesel, they ly within the class of those offices which they re- i are marched to Middleburgh, where they are further commend to be regulated or suppressed; and with regard to the remainder, they see no cause to depart disciplined and kept till they are embarked. from their opinion, which was reported to, and According to the most recent accounts which adopted unanimously by the House, on the 24th of reached Holland from Prussia, the patience of the March, 1807, thinking it safer to invigorate and re- wretched inhabitants is quite exhausted. The inso stere to an entire state this branch of the preroga- hence and exactions of the French have driven them five, than to allow that it should continue eneum- to despair, and they are ready to rise upon their op bered by any such anticipations. The light of the pressors, be the consequences what they may.— Crown over its ewn demesne lands was torrnerly as 1 They are not deficient in zeal, numbers, or courage, consflete as its power of conferring offices ; and I but they are miserably provided with the means of yet the use which was made of that part of its pre- I defence. They have few arms, and hardly any am rogative occasioned Parliament frequently to inter- I munition. • pose; and particularly after the Crown had been Most of the Transports that were lying in the greatly impoverished, en Act passed, whereby all fie- River have been ordered to bring of the Spanish tune grants, for any longer term than 31 years, were I Troops from the Baltic. declared void. Jamaica appears to be abundantly supplied with The miefortune is, as Mr, Justice Blackstone provisiOns. The Gazette of the :.'sth of June saes, remarks, that the Act was made too late, after every " Exclusive of the supply of flour, &c. lately brought valuable possession of the Crown had been granted here from America, three licenced traders arrived on away for ever; or else upon very long leases. Saturday from Cuba, oneot which was entirely laden " It must not be passed altogether without notice, \ with that article." EDINBURGH, AuGu.t• 2 5 . The whol;!of the hamic3 fleet belonging to tl:e Clyde has arrived, with the exception ot the Ileien, 11,1'KugLAY. On the 17th instant, the brig John, of 13 tiff - , Cap tain 111lcs,.which sailed from Ayr lOr Pit'ion on the t i 0), returned without her master. The ac count the people give is, that he became deran3ed, and leaped overboard on Sunday. shew how much the value of lati‘l may be in' creased upon the banks of the Clyde, hy the culli,a 7 tion of fruit, a small property, about four miles be low Lanark, was purchased, from 30 to 40 years ago, under 3001. ; and being now chiefly laid `l7Plt into orchard grounds, the fruit alone has this year sold for 5001. 2b Mr. FO WM had no reaso to c. niplaln or the tinniber of elqantes that hono tired hi. is.. - „etit Bail at th:.: Castle last night, as th ,v,re neariy crowded, thoo, , h the only ind :iduals of ritie.that We observed amon2; the whu!e, , kcere her Grn , Clr• Duch ( -_ , : s or M A R f;80Eouoil a ,r 1 her 2ct7mraphshed dangliter, ANI A Sri N 'The latter, ~tiith a 11r. PAlsF.,.,opencd the Bali. Mr. PAiNr. as Officer in the Sussex Lady SAHA NAINEV, who was with her aunt, the sister of the late, and the aunt of the present Duke of Ric 11 moNn, Lady Lou . .isA CoNoLT.Y, expired here on Wedoesddy. Her remains were removed in a ht . arse for she Richmond family vault at Chi chester, this mernint.., - , for interment. The %veal her ao-d,iy has haen remarkably hrig`nt, and had it not be( n tor a delight fell breeze from the sea, it would have been by for too warm. The Duke and Duchess of MAR LP.° and all the fashion of the place, .have been• seen abroad. 0;3 Tuesday last, as a fishing-boat of this place, belonging to a pucson of the name of CA %DEN, was trawling tor soles,. eze. at about five o'clock in the afternoon, the men were surprised by the very near approach to them of a Swedish Trading Brig. The fishermen, apprehensive of being run down, called out Itlr the crew of the Brig to bear op and avoid them; in lien of which, however, they wore the Ves,l, keeping her helm 1:1e, t) , . if determi"ed to do the boat an injury. The poor ti-herrnen hallooed loudly for mercy, but no at tenion was paid to them and had nut the ropes that confined their nets ,been cut away just as the Vessel struck them, they had all found watery graves. Recovering from their pa nic, the sails of the boat were hoisted, when the fishermen ran alongside the Brig and demanded a coinpunsation for the wanton injury that had been done to them. On this demand, a swivel was le velled at - t hem, and a threat uttered, that if they did not keep off, the boat should he fired into and sunk. So circumstaeced, the poor fellows were c-impelled to submit to the loss they had sustained, and, with out either nets or nib, to make for land, and happy - even to have eseap-d with their lives. It so hap pened, that through the veering of the w ind the Swedish Brig was still in this part of tie Channel on the following day, when the Vessel being seen and recognized by the fishermen in question, they put off their boat to the Port :melon Gun-brig. ot anchor otr the town, and stated what had be fallen them the day before to the Calitain of her, who, feeling that they bad been very unjustly treat ed, instantly pot about seven of his crew, with an Officer, armed with blonderbosses and cutlasses, into the boat, to hoard the Swede, and compel him to pay the price of the injury he had committed. The Swede, on perceiving what was intended, crowded all sail, and stood out to sea, notwithstand ing the Port Mahon fired two, shots to bring her to. The bont, hownver, continued the cltace, occa sionally discharging a blunderbuss, but without effea. The Captain of the Port Mahon, perceiving that the Swede outsailed the boar, ordered his anchor to be weighed, and joined in the chace himself, soon bringing his obje(.-A within the range of his guns, and which no..v the first shot brought to, and made a'A alt his approach. The Captain of the Swede was then ordered on board the Port Mahon ; and whlte, he not having it in his power to contr,vert what the ill-used fishermen had previously stated, he was com manded to make the compensat,oldesired, to save himself from being delivered over to the civil polver on shore, and his vessel from being taken into a British Port, and retained there. Alarmed tor the consequences, and trembling at a sense of his own unworthiness, he conceived it wise to comply with the proposed terms ; .but as he had ti ot.ning beyond the sum contained in a Portsmouth Barik-note„ . of which was the last ;ion he had left, and the demand of the fishermen was 241. he gave them the value of their loss in ropes and sails; when, after a severe reprimand, he was permitted to depart. The hu ' mane and considerate conduct of the Captain of the Pcrt Mahan is still here the currept topic of public aniamdyt.tsion.end applause. A duel took place at Barbadoes, in June, between the Hon. Mr. and T. J. S ----R, Esq.; the former attended by Mr. H. W. and the latter by Mr. M --WELL, in which Mr. M••-•.--1) was wound ed, though not dangeiously. It is a curious circumstance that the identical ten thou,and men whom General CASTA NOS proposed to detach to Portugal, to assist in the reduction of it. - NOT, were the same troops who were sent to co operate with him in the overthrow of the Portuguese Government. Debts to the amount of 580,0001. have now been proved against the late firm of Sir Roger Kerri.on, and Son ; and it is supposed that at least 1.20,0001. more remain to be proved. SMITHFIELD MARKET. Aug. 20. This day's market was well supplied with prim Beasts, and the shew of Cattle in general was very good ; Beef, Mutton, Lamb, Pork, and sup port last price►, and the trade for the most part was pretty brisk. The sales in the Haymarket w:-re 'after considerable ; Hay has fallen in price since Friday's market ; Straw and Clover obtained last prices.—The following prices and numbers are an accurate statement : To sink the Offal per stone of Sib. Beef 4s. od. to Ss,. (A.—Murton 4s. od. to sc. od.—Veal ss. 6(1. to 76. od.-I.aotb ss. od. to 6s. od.—Pork sa. od. to bs. od. Boasts, 2,3oo.—Sheep and Lambs, 24,50a.—Calves, 300. Pigs, 3 co. flay 51. os. od. to 61. los. od.—Clover 61. tos. od. to 71. t;s. od.—Straw I.i. 1.. 6 s. 0... to 2.. Ss, AtTG. 2g.—The suppliec of Wheat this day are short, and fine samples at a small increase in price, but other qualities at little variation ; Barley likewise ; Malt heavy sale, and rather cheaper ; White Pease dearer ; Beans nearly at last prices ; there are not many arrivals of Oars, but large supplies at hand, and sales thereof at little fluauation ; Flour at last prices. Wheat 6os a 24s a 5 34 S od I Tic) Borgia 5.Ga a6u od Fine ditto -87 s a 90S 04. Vats MFR 3 r_CS a 40s o.i Rye -44 s a 4Ss cd I Poland ditto 41i a oft Barley • -40 s a 465 oti POtatoe —s a ‘lcs Malt - -69 s a 76c od ?hoe Seed - A 4% 1 White Pease tcss a tiss iyl I fuie Fwtit fis a 7os 7 Orli Grey ditto • 55s a 6os *4 Saaoosie • • 6os a ass oti tean,? 001 d) 6os a 6ss ad t ~Y IA p 1